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Future Traditions is a multimedia festival that explores digital technology as a collaborative tool for extending and facilitating traditional Latin American music and dance in the 21st century.

**SATURDAY, OCT 17** Catch a groundbreaking performance by headliner, DJ, and abstract turntablist Maria Chávez at Futur...
10/01/2026

**SATURDAY, OCT 17** Catch a groundbreaking performance by headliner, DJ, and abstract turntablist Maria Chávez at Future Traditions Fest 2026.

✨Maria Chávez is best known as the originator of the art practice Abstract Turntablism™ (est. 2000). Abstract Turntablism centers unique physical activation methodologies utilizing turntables, implements, needles, and the breaking of vinyl records.

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🎫Tickets: https://bit.ly/4hGOCWM

✨2026 Future Tradtitions Fest 2026 Featured Performer Joey Reyes presenting About Face, a 50-minute multimedia experienc...
09/30/2026

✨2026 Future Tradtitions Fest 2026 Featured Performer Joey Reyes presenting About Face, a 50-minute multimedia experience blending live music, projected visuals, and live painting to explore pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects. Through recursion and improvisation, artists Joey Reyes (music and projections) and Trey Abraham (live painting) examine themes of identity, emergence, and recognition. Catch this immersive performance at the 2026 Future Traditions Fest.

Joey Reyes is a cellist, composer, and creative technologist who has scored art installations, restorative yoga workshops, plays, and nature films. His live performances are enrapturing, described by the Austin American-Statesman as “simultaneously soothing and supernatural, and absolutely worth witnessing.” Joey Reyes has performed at SXSW, Le Guess Who?, Flying Island, New Media Art and Sound Summit, and Levitation Fest, and he has collaborated with Little Mazarn, Thor Harris, Future Museums, Water Damage, Bill Baird, Ruby Fray, Tan Cologne, and many more.

✨Collaborator:
Trey Abraham is a mixed media artist and visual performer living in Austin, Texas whose works often include a mixture of live painting, printmaking, and collage. Trey received a BFA with a concentration in printmaking from the Memphis College of Art in 2012.

🗓 Saturday, October 17
📍 dadalab, East Austin
🎫 Tickets available at link in bio

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

✨2026 Future Traditions Fest Featured Perfomer: Roco Córdova✨Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, ...
09/28/2026

✨2026 Future Traditions Fest Featured Perfomer: Roco Córdova✨
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer, and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Córdova's work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Voice is at the core of their music making: they incorporate extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, and vocal percussion into live performances that emphasize the electronic processing of these sounds.

✨Collaborators:
Karolina Arocho González is the founder of Pal’ Pueblo Collective and facilitator and dance instructor for Tambores del Pueblo. She has been a Puerto Rican dance performer and instructor for over a decade. Combining her professional experience in abuse prevention and safety planning with years of dance training, she teaches and promotes dance as a coping mechanism to engage communities in healthy habits, collective growth, and trauma healing.

Adam Rosario is a music therapist (MT-BC), percussionist, and retired US Army infantryman based in Austin, Texas. A lifelong student of Puerto Rican folkloric music, he has shared these traditions with Central Texas communities through performance and education for nearly two decades.

🗓 Saturday, October 17
📍 , East Austin
🎫 Tickets available now

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

✨2026 Future Traditions Fest Headliner: Maria Chávez✨Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as ...
09/22/2026

✨2026 Future Traditions Fest Headliner: Maria Chávez✨

Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Maria is the only abstract turntablist in the world who performs with a rare needle known as the RAKE Double Needle. This special device contains two needles on one head, allowing it to read two different segments of a single record at the same time. Paired with her inimitable ability to create unforgettable sonic experiences from shards of broken records, each performance is truly unique.

🗓 Saturday, October 17io , East Austin
🎫Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/future-traditions-fest-2026

📢 Call for Volunteers! Help Support Future Traditions FestFuture Traditions Fest creates space for artists and audiences...
09/09/2026

📢 Call for Volunteers! Help Support Future Traditions Fest

Future Traditions Fest creates space for artists and audiences to gather, encounter new work, and continue the conversation through performance, dialogue, and exchange.

Volunteers help us share a thoughtful, welcoming, and well-supported experience for artists, audiences, and our community.

In appreciation for your time and care, volunteers receive:
✨A Future Traditions Festival Pass
✨A plus-one guest pass
✨A festival tote bag
✨A meal break during each shift
✨An invitation to connect, participate, and experience the festival from the inside

Complete the Volunteer Sign-Up form to learn more and share your availability, role preferences, and relevant skills: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqSvBCUYfVcX4UnNuxSLuA-JC5GY_mhmBRQ6FMDTnIxTF0ww/viewform

Save the Date: Future Traditions Fest is back! Celebrating two days of innovative and groundbreaking works by Latine art...
09/05/2026

Save the Date: Future Traditions Fest is back! Celebrating two days of innovative and groundbreaking works by Latine artists across music, film, and multimedia performances.

🎬 FRI, OCT 16
Video showcase featuring 10+ short films from innovative Latine filmmakers.

🎵 SAT, OCT 17
A night of musical experimentation featuring Latine vocalists, instrumentalists, DJs, and abstract sound artists.

📅 October 16–17, 2026
🎟️ Early bird tickets are now available!

💻 Learn more: www.futuretraditionsfest.com

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